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of $45 a month TO charity.
Congressman Cox will build $780,
600 house in Washington, this sum-
mer.
The oldest son of Anthony Troll
lope has just published his hrst novel,
MY Own Love story"
James Speed. who was Lincoln's
Acknowledgement, is 80 years OF age.
but he still practices law in Louisville,
KY.
William O'Brien has avery peculiar
delivery when speaking in public. He
emits each word between his teeth as
though biting 1t.
Mr.. Denny, Minister TO China. in
letter 10 his brother, says that he fnds
il difficult To support the dignity OF
his position on his small salary.
A young Chinaman employed by q
cigar firm on Park row, New York,
has won the second prize for orna-
mental drawing ut the Cooper lnsti-
tute.
The late G.. l.. Goodale Of Angola,
Indiana, was a cousin by marriage TO
President Garfield, and II was for him
that the latter once worked as u canal
hand.
Professor Oscar Linz. the African
traveller. attributes his good health In
that climate 10 abstention from raw
fruit, and TO his use Of water only after
il was boiled.
William Lee. senior member OF the
Boston publishing house of Lee Il
Shepard. recently celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary of his entrance to
the book trade.
An irrevercnt Washington reporter
says that Kapiolani. the Hawaiian SOW
ereign, knows what the English word
champagne" means, and fuses 1t To
the Queens taste.
There Is one thing. says the Spring
field Union. coniidentially, about
Queen Victoria that ought to be men
toned in full-face caps. this jubilee
year-she never banged her hair.
Professor Palmer. of Harvard. has
obtained answers from most OF the
members of the Senior class rs To
their expenses, from which IL appears
that one-third of them spend under
500 year, one-half under 81, 900 and
three-fourths under 81, 200.
The maiden name Of Daniel Web
ster's second wife was Catherine Lei
roy, and i'm Boston recently divorce
case was tried in which the parties
bore these names. but were i'm no way
related 10 the original families. The
first Daniel did not figure in divorce
courts.
An intelligent Chinaman says there
is no equivalent for the word "boom"
in his language. This Is soothing
and restful fact to dwell upon. But it
may be presumed also that no Chinese
community with which travellers have
made the reading public acquainted
would know what To do with such u
word il IL existed.
The new residence now being erect
ed at Rhineclff, n Y. by Levi T..
Morton will be magnificent build
ing. la feet long and 81 deep. The
house will be built of brown sand
stone and wood. Ii will command
view of the Hudson River for miles
as II runs through country of noun
famous grandeur.
The late G.. WHY'S Belts. Of New
York. bequeathed 10 Yale College a
cabinet of rare and ancient coins,
some old cannon recovered from lost
ships of the Spanish Armada. five an
tique carved wooden chests made in
Connecticut in the seventeenth CEN
tury, and an old oakSn chair brought
from Lancaster Castle.
Senator Palmer's Washington house
cost him $50 900, and he SAYS the SER
wants have the best rooms in It. Their
rooms &c on tho fourth story, looking
)n Mcpherson Square. The house
contains twenty-five rooms in all, and
he elevator is as commodious as that
of good-sized hotel There are nine
bathrooms in the mansion.
Clarke. union veteran residing in
New York, was a signal-boy on Admit
raj Farragut's flagship at Mobile. A
shell from the rebel guns rolled up
behind the Admiral. and the boy see
ing the danger promptly rolled IL
overheard. when II exploded in the
water. He Is now SO poor that the
Farragut medalv voted him by Congress
for his bravery, has been pledged for
q small loan.
Captain Legare j. Walker. Deputy
Collector Of the port of Charleston,
South Carolina, who was wounded ut
Appomattox, has just had the ball re-
moved. IL was so firmly imbeddcd
that it required considerable force to
remove IL. IL was found TO be split
from its apex almost down TO its base,
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